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Mark D. White

@profmdwhite.bsky.social
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Professor, author, editor, and fan of comics, movies, and music www.linkedin.com/in/mark-d-white-4a… See my books here: amzn.to/2aFC66M

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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Welcome to Bluesky. Please familiarize yourself with the following accounts to understand the range of opinions it is acceptable to express.
The Marvel Comics Illuminati (Iron Man, Black Bolt, Doctor Strange, Reed Richards, Professor X, and Big Angry Fish-Man
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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
As if one myriad weren't enough...
MSWord suggesting "myriads" to replace "myriad"
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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A random screenshot from Ikiru for absolutely no reason.
"It kills me to think of 30 years in that place."
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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Go delete yourself, LinkedIn.
email from LinkedIn "congratulating" me for failing to find alternative employment for the last 28 years
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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Are you ready, Sam? (Uh-huh) Clarence? (Yeah) Brett? (Okay) Alright, fellas, well, let's go...!
WSJ headline about the Supreme Court and the "ballroom blitz"
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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
College move-in day!
A dork in the sun
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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Without downloading new pics, what is it like dating you?
"May I share with you a story of complete and utter failure?"
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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I guess this is the movie's full title then?
email from movie theater beginning "I Want Your Sex, Spider-Man: Brand New Day..."
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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Meeting new neighbors every morning.
Two young deer staring at a dork
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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Bon Jovi last night at Madison Square Garden NYC
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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Can we get a call on the comma following "Jr." here, @bcdreyer.social?
Excerpt from The New Yorker that reads: "and Trump, Jr.,'s ex-fiancée"
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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Very proud of my high school graduate!
Dork and son at son's high school graduation
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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Finally, someone sees it.
Spam email that reads:

We recently came across your recent work titled “Introducing Justice and Rights to Students of Economics” and thought it aligns well with the scope of Journal of Daoist Studies.
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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Feeling giddy today...
Dork in a coffee shop
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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
New profile pic
Dork in coffee shop who should be writing instead of taking selfies
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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Sunny selfie
Doofus in the sun
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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Morning friend.
Bunny before sunrise
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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
I guess I'm wearing a different hat today. 😂 siliconcanals.com/sc-a-i-used-...
Snip from an article calling me a psychologist
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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Pleased to share the recent Japanese translation of my edited retributivism book (Oxford University Press, 2011).
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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Caught myself in a whimsical mood.
Selfie of a doofus
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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I might not be a fancy astronautical person, but I take a pretty good shot of the moon too.
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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Not listening to you
Dork with headphones
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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Give me an 'A'... but not for that. @bcdreyer.social
New York Times headline spelling NATO out as North American Treaty Organization
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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Emperor last night in Worcester MA
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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Overkill tonight...
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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
What's this?
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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Opeth
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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I think we'll be holding class outside today...
Icy pond with square area cleared of snow
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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Back for another semester...
My building at the College of Staten Island
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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Sunrise
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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Freshly shorn...
Dork with new haircut
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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Compare...
Frankenstein creature dressed warmly
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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Preparing to go out in 8°F. (Scarf by me mum.)
Doofus dressed warm
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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Like looking in a mirror.
Very sad snowman
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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
"What do you mean — I *am* smiling!" To be fair, the sun was in my eyes.
Doofus in sun against blue sky
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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Don't forget this tan guy.
Obama in tan suit
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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Sunrise behind frozen pond
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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Big surprise.
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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Just saw outside...
Some sort of small hawk (?) in a tree
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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
By Amy Franke www.instagram.com/p/DS7uuPVjTn...
Person jumping from coffee cups from past years into one labeled 2026
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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Never change, Benjamin.
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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
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Li Gong from "Raise the Red Lantern," proclaiming "Today is my birthday."54-year-old doofus
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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Snowy park
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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Squirrel on fence
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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
It's a calendar, so no, I don't need a summary, thank you.
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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Full moon behind clouds pre-dawn
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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
"Ineffectual weenie" works for me.
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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Quoted in Margaret Atwood's Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing. (Thanks to @colinsmith.bsky.social for the rec.)
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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
I'm glad those aren't their real names. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Conquest achieved.
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